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Robin Mazumder, a Ph.D candidate in the Psychology department received a President's Community Impact Award on December 13, 2018.  Robin was recognized for his work with the City of Kitchener Cycling & Trails Advisory Committee and as Guest Librarian to the Kitchener Public Library in 2016. He partnered with the Waterloo Region Local Health Integration Network and the Kitchener Downtown Community Health Centre to make light therapy lamps available at all KPL locations and to the Waterloo campus.  Congratulations Robin!

Senior undergraduate students in Psychology presented their work on Friday November 30 in the EV3 Atrium.

Undergraduate presenters: Jordan Mehravar, Laura Howes, and Sarah Southcott-Whyte

Dr. Fernandes's research on the effects of drawing on memory, especially in older adults, is featured in The British Psychological Society Research Digest.

The University of Waterloo was one of the first in Canada to have its own in-house training facility for their clinical psychology PhD program. Today, the Centre for Mental Health Research and Treatment celebrates 10 years of excellence in research, practice and treatment services on campus and in the regional community.

Anti-smoking measures saved 22 million lives in past decade

Read more about the work being done by the International Tobacco Control Policy Evaluation Project, headed by Dr. Geoff Fong.  

UW Psychology's Geoff Fong  is one of the featured speakers at the CIHR Trailblazer Awards will be presented on September 24, 2018 at York University.  The awards support early-, mid- and senior-career researchers who continue to make exceptional contributions that promote population and public health for Canadians and citizens around the world through evidenced-based health policies as well as interventions. 

For the second time in a few years, this Department has a research team that has won the Ig Nobel!  This time it’s Lindie Liang, Doug Brown, Huiwen Lian, Samuel Hanig, Lance Ferris, and Lisa Keeping in the I/O Area.  The Ig Nobel awards celebrate work that “first makes people laugh, and then makes them think”.  You can read all about it at The Guardian.

Companies should avoid scheduling important work tasks immediately following an election, according to a study from the University of Waterloo.

Researchers discovered the outcome of a U.S. presidential election can affect employees’ engagement and performance at work — if they voted for the losing side. Although experts have long known that ongoing family issues and other stresses can affect the workplace, less is known about the effect of more discrete events.

THE 2018 ALTON OCHSNER AWARD RELATING SMOKING AND DISEASE

The Selection Committee for the 2018 Alton Ochsner Award Relating Tobacco Smoking and Diseases is pleased to present its 33^rd Annual Award to Professor Geoffrey T. Fong, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology and Public Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, and to Eric A.

In the just-released list of "Highly Cited Researchers" for 2018, there are 5 University of Waterloo faculty members.  The list is comprised of those researchers who have published the greatest number of highly cited scientific articles in their respective fields (the number of scientific articles that are ranked in the top 1% of articles in the field). This is a well-respected and recognized list; Clarivate runs Web of Science, citation indexes, etc. 

Here are the 5 University of Waterloo researchers on the 2018 list: